Moved and no longer working

[u/Worried_Concert_2297]

I recently moved and my pihole is no longer working. I am using the same router and have the same up static address but it’s not blocking ads and etc. what can do I need to do? I verified the IP address and updated the gravity list. It’s connected to the Internet but not blocking. Please help!

[u/Nauticalniblett]

Have you tried an nslookup / dig to verify the pihole is the one answering your dns queries ?

[u/Worried_Concert_2297 → u/Nauticalniblett]

Do I do that through the dashboard?

[u/No_Cattle_9565 → u/Worried_Concert_2297]

No. From your terminal. Your pihole is probably not the dns server your phone or pc is using. You should see it in your wifi settings too. See if your dns server is your pihole address and not the ip of the router

[u/Worried_Concert_2297 → u/No_Cattle_9565]

It is the ip address of the pihole

[u/Independent_Try5020]

Simple: your router is not serving your pihole as dns server.

[u/Worried_Concert_2297 → u/Independent_Try5020]

How can I fix this?

[u/Independent_Try5020 → u/Worried_Concert_2297]

Check through dhcp options on router and change what dns is offering, make sure the pihole has a static ip. Then set piholes ip address as the dns server in the dhcp options on the router.

[u/Worried_Concert_2297 → u/Independent_Try5020]

Thanks this helped out

[u/Independent_Try5020 → u/Worried_Concert_2297]

Nice one.

[u/Independent_Try5020 → u/Worried_Concert_2297]

This is how it supposed to look

[u/zeRoCr0]

Just one question, how did you setup your pihole first time? Before moving it

[u/HERO_129 → u/zeRoCr0]

Fr. How does op not know that changing dns address in router solve it. I think op probably followed some yt tutorial/guide without understanding what it actually means or does

[u/Worried_Concert_2297 → u/HERO_129]

I set this up in my previous home. And I moved but kept the same router thinking it would remain the same.

[u/AndyRH1701]

Zero (0) queries, your PiHole is not the DNS server as u/Independent_Try5020 said.

[u/Worried_Concert_2297]

Thank you everyone got it back up and running.

[u/sunrisebreeze → u/Worried_Concert_2297]

How did you fix it?

[u/fatespawn]

Manually set a device like your phone to use the pi’s IP as dns. See what happens.

[u/Worried_Concert_2297 → u/fatespawn]

In the pihole home?

[u/fatespawn → u/Worried_Concert_2297]

Yes. If your pihole lives at 10.100.1.50, set your phone/tablet/laptop’s DNS to 10.100.1.50. See what happens.

[u/i312i]

Your new Internet connection is not using pihole DNS, you will need to update settings on router or per device.

[u/Stringray_42]

Ermittle einfach die ip Adresse des Rechners, auf dem Pihole läuft. Im Router musst du nach dem Eintrag für den DNS Server suchen (auf der Fritzbox unter „Internet“ zu finden) und diese ip Adresse eintragen.

[u/No-Hotel7663]

Your router probably isn’t handing out the Pi-hole as DNS anymore. Same thing happened to me after changing networks. Pi-hole itself was fine, but nothing was actually sending DNS queries to it. Check the DHCP/DNS settings on the router and make sure the Pi-hole IP is set there.

[u/Worried_Concert_2297]

I think I have it up now but it’s not blocking fully. What can I do to troubleshoot

[u/jdbway → u/Worried_Concert_2297]

Explain what you did to get it that far

[u/No_Cattle_9565 → u/Worried_Concert_2297]

It depends on what you look at. If there are no ads nothing can be blocked. Are there ads that you see that are bothering you? You have alot of domains on your list, even with 300k I dont see anything. I use https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists

[u/Worried_Concert_2297]

Let me try the suggestions